Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century America , livre ebook

355

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English

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2014

Écrit par
Todd Savitt

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The Kent State University Press

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Publié par

The Kent State University Press

Date de parution

20 janvier 2014

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781612779904

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

An examination of the medical experiences of African AmericansDuring the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological and anatomical differences that made them well suited for slavery. These attitudes continued into the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras.In Race and Medicine historian Todd Savitt presents revised and updated versions of his seminal essays on the medical history of African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in the South. This collection examines a variety of aspects of African American medical history, including health and illnesses, medical experimentation, early medical schools and medical professionals, and slave life insurance.Savitt examines the history of sickle-cell anemia and identifies the first two patients with the disease noted in medical literature. He proposes an explanation of why the disease was not well known in the general African American population for at least 50 years after its discovery. He also explains why African Americans developed elephantiasis in the Charleston Low Country and not elsewhere in the country. Other topics Savitt explores include African American medical schools, the formation of an African American medical profession, and SIDS among Virginia slaves.With its new research data and interpretations of existing materials, Race and Medicine will be a valuable resource to those interested in the history of medicine and African American history as well as to the medical community.

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Publié par

The Kent State University Press

Date de parution

20 janvier 2014

EAN13

9781612779904

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Ethnic studies Sociologie, société et politique

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